The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-30
HOW OTHERS SEE US.
a New ZeaIander's Notes ON Six
Months Holiday Tour.

A New ZeaIander's Notes ON a Six
Months Holiday Tour.
We pass through Koloa, one of the most
DopuIous settlements on Kauai, ana sui
rounded with sugar plantations and crush
ing mills. From Koloa we strike through
the dividing range of hills; and leaving
behind the dry, parched lands of the lee
ward coast. we enter region OF perpetual
spring. where daily showers refresh the
THIRSTY soil and clothe the undulating hills
and pleasant valleys, the wide, stretching
plains and soafing mountain tops, with the
richest mantle of everlasting green About
midday we call halt under the grateful
shade OF some magnificent ohias,
LADEN WITH DELICIOUS FRUIT,
And growing on the banks of a softly flow
ing stream. With the assistance of my
guide a tolerably huge luncheon is speedily
disposed of, the native causing the bulk OF
the edibles to disappear with the gustO of a
professional expert and the CELEBRITY OF
double-barrelled sausage machine, calmly
anchoring the whole down with about 70
pounds weight of lucious fruit, to the end
that-as Sam Weller would say-he swelled
most "wisibly," and his chequered and
various gingerly fastened habiliments
opened up in all directions. The quantity
of food that full-grown Kanaka can eat
at one sitting is not known, the experiment
being far too costly for any one individual
to undertake.
THE CHIEFS
Have distinctly better physique than the
ordinary Kanaka, and this arises, it is
said, from the ability of successive genera
tons of chiefs to eat more poi than the
others, inasmuch as when stuffed to re-
pletion specially skilled servants 'lomi"
them down, i. e., knead and pound them
after the manner of Turkish bath attend
ants, to stimulate digestion, and so more
speedily make room for more.
LEAVING KAUAI BEHIND.
About 8 D. IN. we weigh ancb n and
plunge out of Nawiliwili harbor, with a
stiff head wind and nasty chopping sea,
which speedily reduces most of us to a
state of perfect misery. AT a. IN. on
Sunday l am shot out on the Honolulu
wharf, limp, "fizzenless,'' and abiectly
Iniserable but a refreshing cup of tea,
and still more refreshing bath. reimbues
me with Pickering desire to live and l
spend another week in Honolulu waiting
for the Frisco steamer, which affords me
the opportunity of more thoroughly ex-
ploring the beautiful suburbs OF this tropi-
cal city, embowered amid the outrageous
foliage of its thousand gorgeous trees, and
redolent with the fragrance of its ten
thousand beautiful flowers.
THE Y. NJ. c. 4, IN HONOLULU.
One of the very best institutions in Ho-
nolulu is the Y. NJ. G. A, the rooms of
which are credit to the city and an I'M
doubted boon to strangers, who have free
access at all times. The large and COM
mOdious brick building is presided over by
a secretary, and the tables are most album
dainty supplied with all the leading maya
zines and periodicals, British, American
and Colonial. When in addition to this
we find that the association provides
soft-footed, polite Kanaka attendant, and
a bount1ful supply of ice water ,git is hardly
to be wondered that the shady lounge of
its pillared porticO is popular resort, and
that the cool recesses of its airy reading
hot, perspiring, glad-to-ge t-out-of-the-su
strangers, but by the shrivelled-up, Ian
guild humanity yclept residenters. Stran-
gers have also free access for month to
an excellent library just across the way;
and the Chinese, too, not to be outdone,
have a Y. NJ. c.. A. OF their own in the
suburbs. Accompanied by an intelligent
son of the "Flowery Land" l went over
the latter and found everything scrupu-
lousy Clean and the whole establishment
apparently in a most f1ourishing condition;
certainly it says a good deal for the much
abused 'chinkie" that with a subscription
of So per annum, this very desirable insti-
tuition should have membership of over
300, with an average attendance at all meet
!ngs of about fifty.
THE TEMPERATURE OF HONOLULU
Varies but little from January to Deem
Der; in summer it averages about 95 de-
grees in the shade, and in winter about 80
degrees; but as a matter of fact they do
not know what winter means-it is a
land of perpetual spring, where fruits and
flowers grow all the year round. OF course
on the mountain ranges it is somewhat diff
ferent, and in the high uplands one can get
almost any temperature desired up to the
eternal SHOWS of Maunaloa Cor Maunakea)
itself, but anywhere below 1000 feet the
heat is tremendous, and night being almost
as hot as day, the body never cools down,
and speedily loses tone" One could
almost wish-like Sydney Smith-to get
out and sit in ones bones for an airing,
and long-suffering residents have been
known to sigh for the primitive days when
clothing of any kind was altogether super
iuous.
At THE WAIKIKI BEACH.
Before leaving Honolulu a memorable
morning is spent enjoying the dolce far
liente on the beach at Waikiki, the fash
enable seaside resort few miles out of
own, and as l lie on the golden sands
aziIy gathering shells, cannot help think
ng how truly tropical, how delightfully."-
pleasant, are the whole surroundings.
overhead the lofty palms are gracefully
'waying to and fro in the gentlest OF sum-
ner breezes; out beyond the shores the
blue wavelets of the Pacific lap softly and